200 JOHN B. SMITH. 



pretty pinkish tinge ; never so dark as in the eastern form. The 

 maculation is sometimes almost washed out; at others the primaries 

 are mottled and all the ordinary spots are clearly traceable. The 

 median lines may be nearly lost, may appear simple, or the t. p. may 

 be crenulated ; some forms coming so close to Tcenioeampa rufula in 

 the markings that a reference there appears most natural on that 

 basis. 



Notes on the Species of FISHIA CJrt. 



The genus Fishia was described by Mr. Grote in 1877, Can. Ent., 

 ix, 21, with essential characters as follows: — Tibise armed; eyes 

 lashed; antennae of male brush-like; wing-form like Mamestra sub- 

 juneta; primaries widening outwardly; thorax with a posterior tuft 

 and the base of the abdomen strongly tufted ; fore tibise appear to 

 be unarmed ; tongue weak. Mr. Grote said further, in comment, 

 that the genus thus combined characters of Hadena with those of 

 Agrotis, and described E. enthea from Oldtown, Maine. 



I saw this species in the British Museum collection in 1891, and 

 record it in my catalogue, p. 167, as one I had not previously seen. 

 It impressed me then as related to Hadena evelina French, and as a 

 Hadena with brush like antennae. For some years I have had in my 

 collection a species from the Province of New Brunswick doubtfully 

 referred under this name. In 1900 I saw the type again, recognized 

 its dissimilarity to my specimens and noted that the species, though 

 much darker, must be compared with Aporophyla yosemitoe Gr. 



In 1873 Mr. Grote described Oucullia yosemitce in the Bull. Buff. 

 Soc. Nat. Sci., i, 113, and figured it on pi. iii, f. 3. The specimen 

 was defective, and later, in deference to Dr. Speyer's suggestion, the 

 species was referred to Aporophyla Gn. (Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., 

 ii, 309). This species does not seem to be in the Briiish Museum, 

 so I could make no direct comparisons. 



Of Aporophyla, Lederer says (Noct. Eur., 96) that the species 

 have the protuberant bulging front and lashed eyes of Episema, but 

 not the plump; bombyciform habitus of that genus; on the contrary, 

 the appearance is hadeniform, as is the maculation and the stout, 

 well developed tongue. Thorax broad, convex, untufted, with 

 smooth vestiture ; abdomen without obvious tufts; legs unarmed; 

 antennae of male either serrated or pectinated. 



The type of A. yosemitui is in the Edwards' collection, but I never 

 compared it with the generic characters above given. 



